About SafarCheck

Independent travel tools · Online since July 2026 · Made for India-Gulf flyers

SafarCheck is an independent website with one job: telling you, before you reach the airport, whether your baggage will be accepted and what it will cost if it isn't. Free tools, verified airline data, and no signup. "Safar" means journey in Hindi, Urdu and Arabic. The Check part you already understand.

Why this site exists

Around 16 million passengers flew between India and the UAE alone in 2025, and millions more travelled to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman for work, family and Umrah. Almost every one of them faced the same small crisis the night before the flight: is this bag too big? Is 28 kg too much? Can I carry Zamzam water on this airline?

The answers exist, but they live in 14 different airline websites, written in fare-rule language, and they change without notice. Meanwhile the excess-baggage counter at the airport charges more per kilo than most people's hourly wage. That gap between confusing rules and expensive mistakes is the gap SafarCheck fills.

We started in July 2026 with the corridor we know personally: India to the Gulf. Workers flying home to Kochi and Lucknow, families shopping in Dubai, students leaving for a semester, and pilgrims carrying 5 litres of Zamzam from Jeddah. Their baggage questions are our entire roadmap.

What you can do here today

Cabin bag size checker: enter your bag's measurements once and see instantly which of 14 airlines accept it in the cabin, in cm or inches.
Zamzam water rules by airline: the airline-by-airline table for the question every pilgrim asks, with dedicated guides for IndiGo, Air India Express and Saudia.
Umrah packing list: a 56-item interactive checklist for men, ladies and kids that saves your progress and prints as a PDF.
The complete cabin baggage guide: sizes in cm and inches, weighing practices, checked allowances, and what happens when a bag is oversize, all on the homepage.

Coming next, in this order: excess baggage fee calculators per airline, a student baggage allowance comparison, and full baggage pages for every airline we cover.

How we work: the data promise

Every baggage number on this site lives in one central dataset. Every page shows the date its numbers were last checked. When an airline changes a rule, we update the dataset once and every tool and table updates together.

Three rules govern the whole site:

No number without a source. Airline pages, official statements and airport authorities first. If we relied on cross-checking secondary sources, the page says so.
No page without a date. You can see when we last verified the data you are reading. Stale data is the disease of travel websites; dates are the cure.
The airline has the final word. Rules change between our checks, and gate staff apply them on the day. We tell you to confirm with your airline because that is honest, not because our lawyers made us.

The full process, including how to report an error, is on How We Verify Data.

What SafarCheck is not

We are not a travel agency, not a booking site, and not affiliated with any airline. We do not sell tickets, visas or Umrah packages. Airline names appear on this site because travellers search for them; the trademarks belong to their owners.

We also do not give religious rulings. Where our Umrah pages touch matters of ihram or worship, we give practical packing guidance and point you to your own scholar for the rest.

How the site earns

SafarCheck is free and stays free. To pay the bills we plan to show advertising and may recommend products, like cabin bags that fit an airline's limit, through affiliate links that pay us a commission at no extra cost to you. Ads and recommendations never change the data. A bag that fails IndiGo's 55 cm limit fails it whether or not anyone buys anything.

The name and the logo

"Safar" means journey in Hindi, Urdu and Arabic, the three languages our travellers actually speak between Kochi and Jeddah. We wanted a name a worker in Dubai and a grandmother in Lucknow would both read correctly on the first try. The logo is a suitcase whose contents passed the check: a teal case, an amber tick. If you spot it in a browser tab full of airline pages, that is the one tab with a straight answer.

Talk to us

Found a rule we got wrong or a number that changed? That is the most valuable email you can send us. Details are on the contact page, and corrections get priority over everything else we do.

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